Quote by Vaclav Smil

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

— Peter Singer

Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating…

— Allan Savory

There is also a marked global trend towards sustainable agriculture, building on traditional methods which use fewer chemical inputs, carefully manage soil and water…

— Helen Clark

The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want…

— Bill Gates

The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without live stock;…

— Anonymous

Farming, from an outside perspective, can be viewed as a romantic, free and off-the-grid life, but the constant work of it means a routine…

— Amy Pietz

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. I think it…

— Peter Singer

Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings!

— Masanobu Fukuoka

It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy…

— John Harvey Kellogg

More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.

— Charles Eisenstein

“The tractor’s arrival had signaled, among other things, agriculture’s shift from an almost exclusive dependence on free solar energy to a total dependence on…

— Wendell Berry

“The word agriculture, after all, does not mean "agriscience," much less "agribusiness." It means "cultivation of land." And cultivation is at the root of…

— Wendell Berry